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...Palestine Liberation Organization, led by relatively moderate Yasser Arafat), Lebanese leftists, and the fiercely nationalistic Phalangists, who deeply resent the fact that armed fedayeen form a kind of state within a state in Lebanon. The bitterness has been compounded by the political difficulties of Premier-Designate Rashid Karami, an eight-time Prime Minister (TIME, June 9), who after four frustrating weeks is still trying to put together a Cabinet that will be acceptable to Lebanon's principal political factions. The problem is that the Phalangists' leader, Sheik Pierre Gemayel, insists that his party be represented. Socialist Leader Kamal...
...first military government, Beirut crackled with small-arms fire as Lebanese Christians celebrated. Last week the military government bowed out after three days, and again the city popped with gunfire. This time it came from Beirut's Moslem neighborhoods, rejoicing that Franjieh had asked former Premier Rashid Karami to head a civilian government. The change in leadership was precipitated by the latest in a series of clashes between the country's Moslem majority (about 60%) and Christian minority that have troubled Lebanon (pop. 3.2 million) throughout its 32 years as a nation...
Three weeks ago, Premier Rashid Solh resigned. When the fighting broke out again, Franjieh named a military government headed by retired Brigadier General Noureddin Rifai to restore order. The appointment was in keeping with a long-standing rule that the Lebanese President should be a Maronite Christian (which Franjieh is), while the Premier should be a Sunni Moslem (as Rifai is). Lebanese Moslems were furious at the appointment, nonetheless, because Rifai represents the army, whose officer corps is predominantly Christian. The Palestinians and even the neighboring Syrians were also angry. Damascus quickly dispatched its Foreign Minister to Beirut to express...
Faisal has become the most important Arab leader in modern times. He symbolizes the glorious era of the Arabs when the legendary Saladin, Haroun al-Rashid and Tariq ben Ziyad were so linked with the history of the West...
...once the window of her second-story apartment. Next door a few men pray in a gutted mosque, while turbaned workers, faces streaked with grime and dust, take a coffee break at Mohammed's Cafe. At one of the tables that sprawl halfway across the muddy street, Aly Rashid sits drawing honey-flavored tobacco smoke through the long tube of his pipe...